A few nice register a business images I found:
216 Virginia Avenue
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Taken in Clarksville, Virginia. This structure was built around 1900 and housed a dry goods business from before 1902 until 1925. After 1913, the telephone exchange occupied 2nd story for many years. Since the 1920’s men’s clothing stores and restaurants have been in this building. Today it’s Galleria, an art gallery which does custom framing. On the side is a downstairs entrance to Big Daddy Bugs Java Hut, a fast food restaurant (Big Daddy is no longer located at this spot). This 2-story brick structure has a stepped front parapet and decorative brick stringcourses across the façade. The 2nd-story windows are arched. On the west wall is a 2nd floor porch with some decorated brackets on the supports. The ground-level storefront has been altered considerably since first built. VDHR ID: 192-0121-0005 [Virginia Department of Historic Resources]. This structure was added June 6, 2002 to the National Register of Historic Places as part of Clarksville Historic District, reference ID #02000625
Major source: Two Mecklenburg Towns—Boydton and Clarksville, ed. by John G. Zimmer, published by Virginia Department of Historic Resources in cooperation with the Southside Planning District Commission, Richmond 2003
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Leonardslee Landscape Gardens, West Sussex, UK | Tranquil walks through woodlands filled with flowering azaleas and rhododendrons in May (21 of 23)
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Leonardslee Gardens: Woodland Walks
For a few weeks in May of each year, Leonardslee Gardens in West Sussex, UK, erupt into a spectacular display of the most amazing color combinations of flowering rhododendrons and azaleas. The green, wooded valley gardens then turn into a place of vibrant colors and outstanding natural beauty. Filled with the scent of the massed azalea plantings the whole area becomes a forest paradise. Visitors have often described its peace and tranquility as being like ‘heaven on earth’.
This photograph shows a quiet path lined with flowering azaleas and ancient rhododendrons through shaded woodland at Leonardslee.
For many years, tens of thousands of visitors have enjoyed the ‘calendar photograph’ qualities of this Grade 1 historic garden. Unfortunately, the gardens are now closed to the public as they have been sold to an international businessman.
Details: Leonardslee Gardens is a truly outstanding English landscape garden having a Grade 1 Historic Garden status (English Heritage Register). It covers about 240 acres (97 Hectares) in a wooded valley, contains seven lakes and is extensively planted with azaleas, ancient rhododendrons (some well over 100 years old), acers and camellias - all with a delightful under planting of bluebells in spring.
The great Victorian plant collector, Sir Edmund Loder (who gave his name to the large flowered and scented Loderi Rhododendron Hybrids) purchased the estate in 1889 and planted large numbers of Rhododendrons there. Sir Giles Loder later planted an extensive collection of camellias at Leonardslee. The estate remained in the hands of five generations of the Loder family until 2010 when it was sold to an international businessman. However, the Loder Rhododendron nursery was not sold and is still in business.
Location: Leonardslee Gardens, Lower Beeding, Horsham, West Sussex, England, RH13 6PP, UK. UK Map references: OSGB36 Grid ref:: TQ220259: Map tile ref: TQ22NW40
Links: A more detailed history of Leonardslee Gardens is available on Wikipedia. Leonardslee nursery is still run by Chris Loder and his website contains useful information on Rhododendron Loderi, its varieties and hybrids.
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